Tindall v. Wasson’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1941
15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Ellis v. Martin · Bowers v. Andrews · Duke v. Strickland · Montgomery v. Wight · Golden v. Cockril
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘in such a mortgage the. property ought to be described with reasonable accuracy, certainty, and particularity, so that the property intended to be mortgaged may be readily ascertained and identified. Indeed, the main object of the description is the identification of the property; for where the description is doubtful or uncertain the property may be identified beyond all doubt by the ownership and possession thereof by the mortgagor.. It must be regarded as settled law in this State that parol evidence is admissible to identify the particular property in a chattel mortgage.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.